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In this case, it's the boss that's self entitled and his behavior perpetuates the problem, kind of like poor parenting does right? People might get hurt and lash out, or they're taught to act a certain why by poor example and perpetuate that...but I don't think that happens in adulthood. Why is the boss so self entitled is the real question? By the time we're adults, our reactions and decision making ideologies are already formed. I believe the root cause is a child's upbringing for these reasons: I fully believe that nature and nurtures' influences are roughly 50/50 in the general population but putting aside the discussion about genetic behavioral traits (nature), learned behavior pre adulthood are the greatest influence a person will have in their lives. Don't believe me? Those middle and high school years create the feelings you have about yourself and others for the rest of your life. You'll never forget your high school crush, your highschool traumas and your high school achievements. How about the music you bonded to in your adolescent years? Bonded for life. The habits you build in those years either become your habits for life or you struggle to break them for the rest of your life. I have one more for you that NOBODY thinks about unless you have a history if immigration in your family: Most people who come from another country before adulthood adapt to their bew country and either forget what life was like in their former country, OR they have almost no attachment to their motherland but if they come AFTER they've reached adulthood they long for their motherland for the rest of their lives. To me, it's unequivocal: your formative years are called that for a reason. They form who you are whether you like it or not and self-entitlement, while genetic (I see it more in some of my kids than others - and I have a huge sample to study from ) us very much learned based on how you're brought up. If kids are brought up believing everyone needs a trophy then they will grow up to think this way as adults. And yes, SM is perpetuating that. At the behest of those that run social media. It's probably the most destructive force in society right now. Anyway, I really enjoy this discussion but I don't want to derail the convo so I think I've made some solid points. You're free to rebut but I'll stop.

All I can say is that is pretty disappointing of you and I totally disagree. Oh well. Moving on...

Where does that feeling of entitlement come from? Genuine question.

Imagine what I would say to him in person. And your point would come across the same way. You can make your points without making it personal or baiting. And quite frankly, I've learned something from the interaction between the two of you (genuinely) but that sort of negativity doesn't help anyone.

The Bridges of Madison County. Love that movie, and Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep were full equals with each other, if not giving Meryl the edge, actually. If you think about that, with Clint being the absolute "man's man" in Hollywood, that's quite a twist. And in her own relationship, while she took the role of the "good, submissive housewife" it was easy to see who had the strength in that family's home. She had all the power in that home and sacrificed it all for her family. It's so subtle many may have missed it. That's the role of a hero. I'm do for a rewatch. What a flick. Come on. Really? This is uncalled for in any setting an EXACTLY the point he was trying to make.

I fully support this, but feel it's important to say that it's not WHAT you do but HOW you do it. It was Nov 5th a few days ago and I posted an image of V with the words written "Remember, remember the 5th of November" on my SM and immediately two of my daughters wrote to me shouting "My favorite movie!" It was so cute, but I understand why. Natalie Portman was the hero in that movie to them (and to me). V, who we all thought was GOING to be the hero ended up just being a supporting character and before I'd read the story I didn't see that coming. I don't think ANYONE has a problem with heroines. V for V was brilliantly written, and well ahead of it's time frankly, but it was done with the purpose of telling the story well FIRST. And I think that's the main difference.

I don't even know who she is. Keep stirring. Or whatever it is you're doing.

I actually refuse to watch the Thor movie, it looked so bad. And JIM was one of my favorite collecting runs of all time. I can understand how women in some circumstances may have felt "put down" looking back through the lense of the past. A look at bondage covers from the GA illustrate this as women are put into compromising positions for entertainment value, so that is definitely something to consider but it's also important to consider that the culture around an event or occurrence is just as important to consider as the occurrence itself, and roles change over time. For example, there was a time when the role of a man and woman were clearly defined through biological relationships. The man was the hero and the woman was the damsel in distress and BOTH MEN AND WOMEN generally agreed to those roles. Those roles aren't as clearly defined these days but those are for INDIVIDUALS to work out among themselves, not for the media to work out for you. Putting down ANY person to make a message more profound was always considered wrong, but these days it's the MO and it's completely counterproductive to the greater cause. You don't NEED to put anyone down to lift yourself up in this day and age, and quite frankly lifting EACH OTHER up is really the only strategic, productive and long lasting way to do it. We may go faster separately but we go further together. But if you predicate your ideology in lifting up some at the expense of others, you're just doing exactly what you're trying to prevent and creating new problems for the future.

I am absolutely DONE dealing with these satellite pick up points. DONE! Last week I had someone mail me documents to a UPS facility, "hold for pickup". We abhor UPS in Canada on a good day but they insisted so I didn't want to be difficult. This was sent overnight, it got held up in customs (should NEVER have been held up it was a simple document), arrived days late and when I went to pick it up, the woman there spent all of less then 10 seconds looking for it (no really, SECONDS!) turned to me and said "we don't have it". I was like, "but you signed for it". "Yes, but just because there's a signature, it doesn't mean we signed for it." Wait, what? "We get a large shipment, we sign for everything at once, but we can't find your shipment. You need to call customer service." I complain that she hasn't done her due diligence and that my only recourse is to call and start an investigation. Furious, I leave, because I KNOW IT'S THERE! Her HUSBAND SIGNED FOR IT. I leave, I get an offshore call center, hang up after 2 mins and call back. Finally get someone helpful. They're about to open an investigation when the lady from the UPS Store calls to LMK that she found my package. No ownership. No accountability. Just a statement saying how I should have done such and such before shipping it. In fact, I did everything they asked. Then she wanted to charge me $10 for signing for it. I looked at her point blank and said "You want to charge me $10 for losing my package, sending me away, stressing me out and making me come back?" "OK, this time you don't have to pay." she replies. These people deserve to get torched online. I'm done with them.

I think a lot of people recognize it but Social Media would have you believe that everyone wants another system (like capitalism or socialism). The fact that they think they can replace an entire system with a "better one" after the human race has been trying for millenia shows that none of these people have ever read a history book or understand how human nature works. No matter WHICH system you have the problem is human greed, so if you don't have better people running a different system you'll still end up with corruption. This is Kindergarten psychology 101. And how to have better people? Well, I hate to repeat myself, but the answer to most human problems is the same: Raise better children and have better families. That really is the solution to everything and the fundamental reason things are not going well. Everything else is secondary. So who is opposed to better family units? The answer is easy to see. Those that try to break it apart and keep it apart.

I agree, but more accurately, it's the love of money and not the money itself that causes corruption. Money is just a tool. When profit is the single motivator everything will eventually fall apart because intent matters. It's not the business that causes trouble, but how people go about their business. So if you have someone in business who wants to make a profit but their intent is to do 'good things' like care about their employees or how their business affects others, you see that philosophy expand outward in a positive fashion. But if profit is the only goal that philosophy expands outwards in similar fashion, but with destructive forces eventually. It's inevitable.

This is how business is conducted these days. Stall, hardball, no goodwill, let the chips fall where they may. It's always been this way, with awareness increasing through social media, people are just realizing now how pervasive it is. Finding an employer who actually cares about employees is very hard to find. I've had a few and they are priceless.

Nobody has an issue with "girl power" movies. I have 3 daughters, a step daughter and love all the women in my life. I also like pizza. But if people keep ramming pizza down my throat I won't like pizza anymore. It's that simple. The problem is not the message. The problem is the over-compensation of the message and that sort of thing breeds resentment and bitterness. People are looking for art, not preaching. Until the art form becomes the driving force behind a story, it's going to continue to suffer. And it should.

You know. The stuff you like.

If only these people cared more about what's going on OUTSIDE of Hollywood, then Hollywood would be a better place. But no.

Yup. Local establishments, food places, shipping and receiving services, banks - everything imaginable. It's not just the movie industry. It's all the industries that support the movie industries.

As is happening in every other business, powerful legacy corporations are losing their grip on the public's attention. They've been churning out pablum for too long and people are getting fed up, making independent filmmaking much more appealing. Who needs a bloated set when you can make a much better movie at a fraction of the price with no strings attached to anyone? It's all the strings attached that are literally choking the life out of the industry. It'll be refreshing to see what new life comes out of this, much like when the big players broke away from Marvel and DC in the 90s and just started their own genres and spawned an entire new industry. My LA friends are making independent movies and flourishing.

Good. This stuff needs to go.

Yeah, but can you believe nobody's notified on this thread that it's not a comic book movie?

Congrats on your Purchase of Blackstone!

Haven't we already seen a FF movie with a Silver Surfer story line built in there about some 15 odd years ago? Yeah. It was carp though (the fish Lizard2 loves, not the doo doo). Disney is so obviously going to redo the entire Marvel Universe. They didn't spend $100BIL to squat on it. Like I said, they are S-T-A-L-L-I-N-G until contracts expire so they can restart the franchises. They've just been biding their time with all of these other stinkers they put out.

Never again.

Dude, I was almost at 104K at the start of the year. When Mike banned me from the Water Cooler (people got tired of being schooled) I lost over 3000 posts.

This makes no sense to me, as someone has forged your signature. It seems to me they open themselves up to claims that the package was never received and wouldn't be able to prove you signed for it because, you know, you didn't sign for it and the signature they can produce will look nothing like yours. This is very common (for a driver to just sign and drop a package). These aren't exaggerated isolated incidences. It is REALLY, REALLY bad out there. It's literally impossible to have customer service that's bare-minimum reliable. Everything is a crapshoot these days. And it's going to get worse. More and more parents are being removed from children's lives, less and less kids grow up knowing how to communicate or understanding how to be a good employee and the lack of a reasonable expectation of customer service is causing society to slowly collapse in so many ways. And it won't turn around until people start changing, which will likely be never. The world is turning into one big ghetto. End rant.

I have to say, this idiocy is one of the most ridiculous ideas ever to come out of a shipping company. On WHAT PLANET did these buffoons think shipping to a GROCERY STORE was going to be a good idea. I just got out of a FedEx Pack and Ship location and the person working there is so USELESS that it took me a half hour to do what should have taken 5 minutes. We went well after closing time and he was going to ask me to leave without fixing a label on the package. I stopped, looked at them and told them I am going to need them to put on the pouch and the waybill onto the box before I leave. Like, WTF? Who the F does that? The company, like the world is slowly falling apart. Literally at the seams. That was my 3rd FedEx store after their site recommended a closer one THAT WAS CLOSED FOR 3 WEEKS and then the next one WAS NOT EVEN A DROP OFF LOCATION. It was a pickup location in a hotel. Falling. Apart. Just like the rest of the world. Nothing works properly anymore. Nothing.